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She was the last person he would ever think he would run into at the supermarket. He is supposed to be home for only one week and he runs into the one person that will always have his heart. She broke it years ago but he still loves her. And Casey, wow, she looks exactly like him. She has his eyes and face but boy does she have Jaz's hair. Casey reminds him of years as a kid, she looks exactly like her dad at his age. He remembers when when he was her age, before her dad got mean and when him and his mom were able to do whatever they wanted wherever they wanted to be. That is until he was eight when his dad became angry and aggressive but he never wants to be like that near Casey. He wants to teach her how to play sports and be home early every night so that she is never disappointed. He wants to be there for her in the long run, and not just her but Jaz as well. He still remembers the first time he knew they were meant to be.
"Hey Top, so about earlier, you know when-"
"When you said some stuff, then I said some stuff, and you said some more stuff."
"Yeah so about that, I want to let you know it will not happen again."
"What won't happen? You being human or you opening up to me?"
"Both probably."
"Jaz, you do not have to do that, it's just you and me and you lost your best friend not too long ago. It's okay to be human and let yourself feel the loss once in awhile."
And at that she had a tear running down her face and I want over to her and embraced her in a hug to let her know she was not alone. She fought it at first but I held onto her even tighter and then the tears came.
I wake up the next morning and walk outside my room to see Jaz and McG at it again. She was acting like nothing happened last night but I'm alright with that. She let me have a glimpse into her heart last night and I was not about to push her for more.
He pulled up infront of the house and immediately saw that there were toys sprawled out all over the lawn and front porch. He wishes he was there for when Jaz had bought the house and for the first time she was able to call it home. For each time she gave Casey a new toy, the face she must have had. She seems like such a happy kid and he just wishes that he was there for his girls all the times he was not able to. He had never pictured her as an all american white picket fence type of gal but remembers how Preach once said that having a girl changes everything. Still sitting in his car he wishes that he had been able to spoil both of them rotten.
He finally gets out of his car and goes over to Jaz and Casey to help with the bags. Jaz then says, "Hey Case, why don't you go and let KD out of the house, I'm sure Adam here would like to meet her." Casey goes flying towards the house and before I can say anything a giant German Shepherd comes running towards us barking, "Hush KD, this is our friend Adam, Adam this is KD. I got her a few months before casey was born. She basically runs the house but I am warning you now, the second you hand her a piece of food she will never stop begging. Her and Casey are linked by the hip because of that."
While she's talking I'm looking around at how she doesn't just have a carolina blue house with a white picket fence but a dog and daughter as well. I'm wondering what KD stands for, maybe it stands for Khan-Dalton or maybe I just want to believe I have a chance with her. KD reminds me of Patton and how Jaz, Patton and I used to go on walks around the base and how after the truck blew up on the beach Patton come to check on me but then went straight over to Jaz and waited by her. KD seems just like Patton except that she would protect Casey over anyone else. KD sure has their hearts, now I just have to win not just Jaz's but also Casey's.
As we are waiting for Jaz to open the door, I'm wondering why she never told me about any of this, it has been about five years that they have not had contact. But I think that headquarters knows, Patricia is the one who's been nagging me to take a break for a while. But if that's true than McG must have known about all of this, they were tight as twins. McG came back to the team about two years after Jaz left and I know that Jaz knew. From time to time I would overhear McG talking to Jaz and I would ask him how she was. Hew would just stare back at me with eyes that saying why would you let her go Top. But he knows that she has not moved on or else she would not have brought him back to her house, they would have said farewell at the supermarket.
They enter the house and the first thing that greets them is a table full of photos, some of her and Casey as well as the team but what strikes him the most is the picture in the middle. He never thought that anyone knew about their walks with Patton around the base but there was a picture of him and Jaz, and well and Patton, staring him in the face. But what struck him the most was that it was the biggest picture on the table, not by much thought but it has to mean something. He never thought that he would turn into one of those men who falls head over heels for a woman, especially one who works under him. She is the only one that he has ever felt this way for, there has never been another woman who has had his heart like she does and now that there is a little girl involved he knows that he is in this for the long run.
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